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British wn Westward For ‘Some Miles’ in Last 24 Hours. {War Moves, Page Seven) By LEON KAY
United Press Staff Correspondent
CAIRO, Nov. 3.—The im-
‘perial 8th army today engaged Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel’s Afrika Korps in a tank
and infantry battle of grow-
ing proportions and drove a deeper wedge into axis posi- ‘ tions at the north end of the Alamein line.
~ Fighting was joined on an irregu-
Car front from positions nearly 25 , miles west of the original Alamein © line to the Ruweisat ridge.
~ At the north end of the line, close
to the coast, the Australians had
ocketed about 2500 axis troops west of the Hill of Jesus and had
3 beaten off every attempt by Rom-
mel's men to break out of encircle-
Infantry Opens Attack
West of the encirclement: area r imperial troops were driving ard. in a push whicheappeared 2. taken them to the vicinity - Abd el Rahman, 25 miles the pre-battle positions: of
the. contending armies.
“How far west the British spearBead had been driven was not However, an advance of
The imperials opened their assault with ‘an infantry attack about 2 ‘a.m. Monday, followed up at dawn by the biggest allied armored. at-
tack of the offensive.
“The! armored battle developed throughout the day. Heavy fighting was going forward in the Tel Air Aqqaqir area, about. 10 miles forward of the original Alamein positions and about five miles south of the coast.
British Occupy Ridge “The Tel el Aqqaqir ridge was sub- | sequently occupied by imperial - forces.
(A German DNB broadcast
claimed that “by careful estimate”
"the British lost one-third of their tank forces in yesterda ’s battling.)
‘Rommel was m g unstinting use of shock troops, backed ‘artillery and heavy mortars effort to widen the gap in le ‘Australian encirclement. The ‘moved .up their guns, par-
ticularly anti-tank guns, to. batter
lated axis forces. Infantry Attacks
extreme south, near the Depression end of the ile fighting front, Britattacked. yesterday. an important advance. aircraft, with American
intained an umbrella of suabove the troops and tanks g on the western desert
y port of Tobruk. The first | as “a successful raid.” { cond, the communique said,
ay northwest. of Tobruk, ig fire to a medium sized mership and scoring a possible hit A Smaller vessel.
srmans Threaten Gateways To Two Soviet Oil Centers
DW,. Nov. at, P)— y_ superior German forces, 3g _ steadily southeast of threatened both Ordzhonteway to the rich southsus, and the railhead the Grozny oil fields to-
et noon communique adit: the defenders had somewhat, their seventh
8 . the . middle. -of last}.
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Fireflies Marine Flier Thought They Were Japs With Cigarets.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3 (U.P). —PFireflies are harmless little things, but they nearly drove Second Lieut. Archie M. Smith Jr. crazy. The 22-year-old marine corps flier thought they were Japanese with cigarets. Smith, who was- listed a few weeks) ago as missing after a south{ Pacific air battle, told his story today when he arrived home for a 15-day furlough. His father had been writing his obituary for
a fraternity magazine when news came that he still was alive. Lieut, Smith said that after the battle, he and his gunner landed in the sea about a mile and a half from an island. It was dark when they reached the shoreline and saw the fireflies flittig around. “I thought for sure they were Japs,” he said. However, there were Japanese on the island—only eight miles away at one time, Friendly natives sent word to an allied base and after Lieut. Smith and his companion hid for several days, an airplane came to rescue them.
REPORT HIGHER NIPPON LOSSES
Col. Knox Reals Sinking -0f Two 0, Additional Jap
Brgisers.”
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (U. P.).— Secretary of Navy Frank Knox revealed today that two additional Japanese cruisers.-and a destroyer had been sunk in recent naval action in the Solomons. But he warned that the enemy remains powerful and that “desperately hard fighting is ahead. ~ “There is no warrant for optimism,” the secretary said, adding that “some of the headlines this morning were more optimistic than the situation justified.” Knox told a press conference that Vice Admiral bert L. Ghormley, recently replaced as commander-in-chief of the South Pacific area by Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., had personally brought back news of heavy Japanese losses in a naval action the night of Oct. 11-12. In that battle, according to Ghormley’s report to Knox, the enemy lost three cruisers and five destroyers. Knox cited this as proof that navy communiques had consistently been conservative. The communique of Oct. 13, describing the night battle near Savo island, (Continued on Page Two) 2 2 =
On the War Fronts
(November 3)
MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS —Australians in New Guinea advance toward Oivi after capturing Kokoda, Japanese base in Owen Stanley mountains; allied bombers prevent Jap reinforcements irom landing at Buna.
S. HEADQUARTERS, SOUTH PACIFIC — Marines on Guadalcanal island advance two miles; supplies .and reinforcements revealed to have reached Guadalcanal late in October.
CAIRO—British attack at southern end of Alamein line; clash between armored forces developing at northern end of line; allied planes blast Tobruk and Crete, hitting two destroyers, -
MOSCOW—Nazis push forward Ordzonjkidz and Grozny in the Caucasus; Russians gain northeast of Tuapse; fighting dwindles
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at Stalingrad.
Soviet ‘high command announced last, midnight that it had been abandoned to the Germans. Inside, south and northwest of Stalingrad, the Russians dealt the Germans heavy blows. In a northern section of Stalingrad, Red army forces drove the Germans from several buildings in a factory area, in fierce counter-attacks that began four days ago. - On the southern. outskirts of Stalingrad, the Russians killed 200 2 more Germans, Northwest of Staliy Red forces dn
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{WPB MATERIAL
CHIEF PUSHES CONTROL PLAN
Eberstadt Adds Strength To Board’s Various Industrial Units. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. (U.P.).— Ferdinand Eberstadt, vice chairman
of the war production board since last month and now administrator
of WPB’s new controlled materials
plan, moved quickly today to get the program in operation. As a first step in the reorganiza-
Eberstadt and Ernest Kanzler, WPB
the . board’s branches. . These branches, through which the WPB will exercise complete control. of all military and civilian production, have been given the responsibility of handling all operat-
various
rigidly channeled to plants. Through them the nation's wartime economy will come under one plan and under ‘one administrator. Each Branch Gets Job
Under the reorganization now started, the industry. branches will execute programs. and carry out policies and procedure decreed for the various materials for which they are individually responsible, ‘Each
branch, henceforth,, will fourm many. functions heretofore }
by Kanzlér’s office): it-was” The industry brahches, Eien, will not formulate policy or conduct the planning, co-ordination
and supervision phases of the con-
trolled materials plan — functions necessarily concentrated in Eberstadt’s office. In equipping the branches to carry out their executive functions, it was announced, representatives of labor, industry, and the seven government “claimant agencies” will be assigned to them “to maintain a permanent connection” among all the elements of production. Seek to Ease Shortage
The claimant agencies are the army, navy, maritime commission, aircraft scheduling unit, lend-lease, board of economic warfare and office of civilian supply. They :will be required to present estimates of material requirements. * At the same time, industry. advisory committées will obtain from industry suggestions for relieving mafterial shortages where they exist, for. controlling distribution of resources and for eliminating use of critical materials - in nonessential production. Resources, as the WPB uses the word, mean not only raw and industrial materials but also processing and production capacity, equipment, power and other facilities essential to. production with the exception of manpower.
REPORT NAZIS LEVY HUGE FINE ON POLES
Seek to Halt Outbreak of
New Sabotage.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—The Polish information center today reported that Nazi authorities in Warsaw have imposed about $200,000 collective fine on Warsaw residents in an effort to halt a new outbreak of anti-Nazi sabotage. Underground reports = reaching London, the information center said, revealed that the fine was imposed on Oct. 29 The Poles were reported to be hurling bottles™df hydrochloric: acid at German soldiers in uniform, and escaping before authorities were able to learn their identity.
SINKING ANNOUNCED . WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (U.P.).—
‘The navy announced today that a
small Jugoslavian merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine during the latter part of September in the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America, Survivors have been landed at an east coast pol of the United States,
ORDERS WAGE HEARING WASHINGTON, Nov. 3-(U. P.).— Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard today instructed the Culifornia farm wage board to reopen public hearings to determine pre:
tion of WPB envisioned in the plan, | ‘3
ing phases of the plan. Through|them all critical materials will be] | industrial.
director general for operations, be-1| gan to decenfralize and strengthen]: industry|
casting his vote.
Judge Dewey Myers - checks over the situation preparatory to
Gen. Robert H. Tyndall casts his vote.
the polls early.
One Certain Vote for Myers—And One for Tyndall
Both candidates were at
Now 18% Female May Go to 58% Soon. Last March, the Curtiss-Wright propeller plant” here began hiring women, Today - — eight’ months later — between 18 and 20 per cent of the plant's employees are women, And as the ‘war goes on, with more and more men being taken into the armed services, more and more women will be hired to do the many ‘mechanical ‘tasks connected with the ‘making of propellers, A. J. Kertis, Cuttiss- “Wright personnel manager, said that a survey of jobs had been made and it was determined that women could be employed up to a point where they would constitute 58 per cent of the plant’s entire personnel. Employment . of women naturally will not solve all: the manpower problems - confronfing - plant officials since there are many jobs, particularly those connected with maintenance, which women cannot fill. “We are worried, of - course, but not alarmed about the situation,” (Continued on Page Two)
RULING IS AWAITED IN TREASON TRIAL
CHICAGO, Nov. 3 (U, P.).—Federal Judge William J. Campbell decides today whether a statement signed by Walter ‘Froehling, one of six German-born defendants on trial for treason, should be admitted as evidence despite defense protests that it was obtained under duress. / The statement, obtained by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, told of Froehling’s relations with his nephew, Herbert Hans Haupt, 22, one of the six executed Nazi saboteurs who landed in this counbry by submarine last spring.
. HYDE PARK, N. v, Nov. 3 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt cast ballot No. 175 at the town hall today. The president, more in .the role of a Dutchess county squire than as chief executive, made his customary election day visit- to the little “white frame building where the Roosevelt family has voted, for generations. Driving into the village from his estate, “Mr. Roosevelt was * greeted: by J. W. Finch, chairman’ of district 3" election board. = Finch looked up over his spec=tacles at the president and asked gravely: Le : «Name ' pléase?™ ¢
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a Rt 4 Firemen Injured as Blaze
Curtiss - Wright Personnel Equipment Destroyed by Flames ‘Which luminate
Entire Neighborhood on S.. West St.
Four firemen were injured last night when a two-alarm fire heavily damaged the Indiana Works Projects Administration “building, 1741 'S
West st.
The injured were Capt. ‘Michael Gardner and ‘Michael Lich, both of Engine House 7; Lieut.. James Renihan of -Pumper 17, and Nicholas Cook, chauffeur of Engine House 19. All received minor injuries and
with’ thie exception /of Fireman Cook were treated at City ‘hospital. -
Illuminates Neighborhood
The men were injured when the! north wall of the one-story utd ing collapsed. Firemen were una to determine the cause. of the pane which lighted up the neighborhood for several blocks, attracting ‘several thousand persons to the scene. An investigation was opened today. Destroyed or heavily damaged were’; ‘scores of sewing -madchines, conlrete mixers, adding machine, typewriters and picks and . shovels. ‘Three automobiles and. three’ trucks also were damaged. All equipment
‘was government property.
- Passerby Sounds Alarm
A passerby turned in the first alarm, but the flames had gained considerable headway by -the time firemen arrived. The blaze started near a large storage of ‘oil drums and firemen said that at least 12 of these drums exploded. Some of the firemen stayed. at the -blaze all night, pouring water on the L-shaped building until-day-light. * This was - the second {ime authorities had been sent to the ‘address in a little aver a month: On Sept." 29, police said that bufning papers were: thrown over the wire fence: around. the building, but no damage was caused.
STICKERS REPLACE PLATES
REGINA, Nov. 3.—(U. P.).—Automobile license plates will be replaced in Saskatchewan by windshield stickers in 1944 to conserve metals, Provincial Highways Minister A. T. Piocier announced today.
First Lady's Ballot Overdue | As FDR Votes at Hyde Park
himself with the enrollment blanks. “Occupation?” the President was asked. “Farmer,” he replied. 1 think that’s what I said last time.” Then the President, who had appealed to ‘the voters of the country for a. good turnout at the folls today, asked Finch: . “Did my missus’ ballot get in from |. London in time?” It was a delicate: “situation but Finch took it in his stride. “It is not included in the absentee
| ballots on hand,” he said, meaning that Mrs. Roosevelt, now in Eng- Edson
land, had not returned. her ballot in time to be recorded. The President shook his head Tue‘Finch :
MACARTHUR RETAKES
KOKODA FRO FROM IAPS,
el Allies Beat Off Convoy
Buna Area.
MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Nov, 3 (U. P.).— Allied” ground forces, striking swiftly down the north slope of New Guinea's Owen Stanley mountains, have recaptured the strategic town of Kokoda and are pursuing the Japanese beyond it, Gen Douglas MacArthur announced today. Simultaneously, allied heavy and medium bombers were beating off a Japanesé convoy attempting to land troops in the Buna area on the north coast of the island. The enemy: ships were pounded from morning until dusk and fled northward toward New Britain. Thus, 63 days after it had been captured by the ‘Japanese, Kokoda, with its valuable air field, returned to allied possession.
NAZI PROPAGANDA: NEW -ATTACK NEAR
By UNITED PRESS The German high command was reported today by the mysterious Gustave Siegfried EINS radio station to have adopted a new strategy calling for a.grand offensive in the Mediterranean area and w virtual cessations of operations on the Russian’ front.’ Ths Broadcast was interesting in view of the importance attached by beth the axis and the united nations to the current allied offensive in Egypt, but - too much significance should not be attached to it because it is uncertain who operates the propaganda station which claims to broadcast from within Germany.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Inside .Indlps.11 Jane Jordan. .15 Men in Service ‘9 Movies Obituaries Pegler ... Pyle Questions Radio ; Mrs. Roosevelt 11, Side Glances. 1
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EXPECT LIGHT
only 1,250,000 Will Turn - Out, Leaders Say; Con‘gress Races Feature,
. Hoosier voters went to the polls today to elect 11 .congressmen, 11 state officers and judges and a host
of county and.city officials ‘in the second wartime .election of this century. Estimates indicated that voting would be the lightest in 10 years or more, probably bringing out only about 1,250,000 voters in the state’s 3638. precincts. . At Ft. Wayne, a Republican stronghold, only 3728 Republicars reportedly had voted by 9 a. m. This, according to party leaders, is 13 per cent of the total expected Republican vote and: is seven per cent below the Republican vote that was cast by the same time in 1940.
G. 0. P. Expects Margin
G. O. P. leaders predicted that they would come out of. Allen county with a 60 per cent to 40 per cent margin. Democratic party leaders reported that labor was turning out “in droves” at Anderson and Muncie to vote against Republican ‘Rep. Forrest Harness and Raymond Springer respectively. In Owen county, the voting was reported to be heavier than expeeted and a light vote was reported in Morgan county and at Corydon, Petersburg and Clinton. At the latter town it was reported that the (Continued on Page Two)
FLAGSTAD IN STOCKHOLM STOCKHCLM, Nov. 3.—(U. P.).— Kirsten Flagstad, soprano formerly with the New York metropolitan opera, arrived last night to sing in a concert.
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MACHINES JAM | AT THE START OF BALLOTING
Democratic Charge n ‘Scheme’ Quickly Denied By Republicans.
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Veteran politicians pre« dicted the lightest vote in 10 years today as Marion couns ty residents went to the polls today amid Democratic charges that Republicans had “jammed”
ing the early hours. The estimates of the total county vote ranged from 150,000 to 175,000, while William Flanery, chief regis
tration clerk who has the best record as a prognosticator, said the vote would total around 158,000, . In the last three elections Mr, Flanery has not missed the exact total by more than 2000 votes and in 1940 he missed by only 27 votes. The total vote in the last four elections was: 1340 1938
ceeriesinenseeesss 240,000 . 197,000 1936 ...ovivercnrnnneess 213,0000 1934 ............. vesees 170,000 The light vote this time was ine terpreted as meaning that many of the “doubtful” voters—the ones
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Many Farmers Stay Home
A check of the rural sections of the gounty revealed that many farmers were taking advantage of the cool, sunshiny day to stay in their fields and work. = Political sources believed - that most of these farmers would not leave their, work to go vote before: the polls close at 6 p. m. - Republican - county headquarters reported that voting during the morning hours was “very heavy” on the North side, “good” on the: East side and that it was very light on the South and West sides. Demos cratic leaders said that they would get out their vote on the South and West sides late today when the workers got out of the factories.
‘Scheme,’ Shouts Dean
When the polls opened at 6 a. m, today, voting’ machines in 81 of the 366 county precincts would not operate and Democratic County Chairman Russell Dean charged & “deliberate scheme of the. Repube licans to keep defense workers from voting in many Democratic dise tricts.” Bo Early voters shivered in freezing. temperatures between 6 and 8 a. nm. while 14 mechanics scurried fromy one voting place to another in an effort to get the machines working, Scores of disgusted working mem. and women left for their jobs without voting, but all machines were operating by mid-morning . = County Clerk Charles Ettin Democrat, who is in charge of : voting machinery, said that in one precinct he found a lever on a mae chine still tied down with a ‘rope, In another precinct he said he found a Key to the machine in up= side down, preventing the machine from operating. Francis Thomason Agrees “I am convinced that in some in stances ‘the jamming .of the mae chines was deliberate—it couldn’é have been anything else,” said Mr,
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Francis Thomason, Democrafie member of the election board, said “it appears that opposition’ varty (Comiinged 4 on Page Two)
National Voting Trend Light? It May Tip Off War Feeling
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 3.—The nation was casting a light vote today for national, staté and. local offices.
southern states where. voting began earlier than on the west coast, reports indicated consistently light attendance at the polls. New York state, where: Republican candidate - Thomas E, Dewey was strongly favored over Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr, Democratic candidate for ‘gevernor; reported light early voting both in the city and upstate. “conditio
In eastern; middle western ‘and
reported
1938, the last off-year election. The voting was “very light” Connecticut, where the state’s factory workers ‘refrained for the most part from voting before goi to work. Their Votes were expectes to be heavily Democratic. Similar reports of light were received from Massachuset
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started light in Pennsylvania bl began to pick up toward noon. This election is heavily weig with presidential politics. Scattered contests bear dil
the voting mas chines in many precincts dure